Montreal - Canadians will head to polls on October 14 in a national election after Prime Minister Stephen Harper ended weeks of speculation Sunday by pulling the plug on his own minority Conservative government.
Speaking to reporters outside the Governor General's residence in Ottawa, Harper announced that he asked Michaelle Jean, the Queen's representative in Canada, to dissolve parliament.
"Between now and October 14, Canadians will choose a government to look out for their interests at a time of global economic trouble," Harper said after meeting with Jean.
"They will choose between direction or uncertainty; between common sense or risky experiments; between steadiness or recklessness."
New Delhi - An industrial dispute over Tata Motors' acquisition of land in West Bengal for a factory to build the "Nano" - billed as the world's cheapest car - ended on Sunday. P
Protesters reached an agreement with local government on compensation to farmers whose cropland had been acquired for the plant, news reports said.
After three days of talks initiated by West Bengal Governor Gopal Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, the two sides had reached "an acceptable formula," Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Shyamal Chakraborty was quoted as saying by IANS news agency.
The CPI-M is the leading partner in West Bengal's left party coalition government.
New Delhi, Sept 7: Former President A. P. J. Adbul Kalam on Sunday said India can conduct nuclear tests in the supreme national interests, if the international situation warrants it.
New Delhi, Sept 7: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Sunday said its fight against the Indo-US nuclear deal was not over and it would work now to see a new government in power which would terminate the 123 Agreement.
The CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat told media persons here today, "Our political battle is here and not in Vienna or Washington. Earlier we withdrew support on this issue and we are now fighting against this ruling coalition. The struggle to rescind or reverse this deal is agreement is not over.”
"After the next elections, our goal will be to see that the new government take step to terminate the 123 Agreement. We will work for this," added Karat.
Kolkata, Sept 7: Consensus has been reached today between the West Bengal Government and the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee over the Singur land issue.
Johannesburg/Luanda - With nearly 55 per cent of the ballots counted, Angola's ruling MPLA party seem headed for a massive victory of more than 80 per cent of the vote in the country's first parliamentary elections in 16 years, reports said Sunday.
According to the state electoral commission, the MPLA party of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos was ahead in 17 of 18 provinces. Should the results be confirmed, the MPLA would have more than the two-thirds majority needed to change the constitution.
The official results are expected at the earliest by the middle of next week.
The largest opposition party UNITA had so far received little more than 10 per cent of the vote. The rest went to smaller parties.
